C. S. Lewis Quotes about Fear

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

C. S. Lewis

Fear, Nice, House

C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C. S. Lewis

Sympathy, Regret, Fear

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.124, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

C. S. Lewis

Growing Up, Fear, Healing

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.

C. S. Lewis

Fear, Grief, Yawning

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

C. S. Lewis

Fear, Children, Growing Up

C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

C. S. Lewis

Gratitude, Fear, Grateful

1942 The Screwtape Letters, no.15.

There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?

C. S. Lewis

Fear, Men, People

C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.10, Harper Collins

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

C. S. Lewis

Pain, Fear, Journey

C. S. Lewis Quotes about Fear

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